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Thursday, April 7, 2016

FINALS UPDATE:Modern Family (2.3) and Empire (4.3) adjusted up while Nashville (0.9) adjusted down, back into fraction-town.

The last two broadcast giga-hits were back together again for one night only, with American Idol posting a 2.2 demo rating to win the 8/7c hour on the eve of its Thursday finale. And Empire fell a little over 10% to a 4.2 in its second spring airing. That may be a little worse than it looks on the surface since it had a major lead-in upgrade, but we'll see how much of it holds on when Rosewood is back next week.

ABC's comedies got their first look at Empire since the new year (plus added 8/7c competition from Idol), and the results were pretty rough: The Goldbergs (1.8) and Modern Family (2.2) both plummeted to new season lows, while The Middle (1.7) and Black-ish (1.6) tied their lows. However, Hayden Panetierre's return on Nashville (1.0) preliminarily got that show back into the ones for the first time this spring.

On CBS, Survivor (1.9) led into a double-dose of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (1.2/1.2), which inched down in its first airings with no Minds lead-in. This matched what CSI: Cyber did in a similar two-hour airing last May.

It was a rougher night for fellow newbie Heartbeat (0.7), which suffered a likely fatal blow against the double-whammy of Idol at 8/7c plus the other NBC dramas going into repeats (0.8/0.8).

On the CW, Arrow (0.8) gave back a tenth of last week's rebound, but Supernatural (0.7) picked one up.

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

The Middle

1.7

31%

0%

0.0

-6%

+55%

-6%

1.92

-0.04

The Goldbergs

1.8

37%

-10%

-0.2

0.0

-10%

+50%

-10%

1.83

-0.24

Modern Family

2.3

39%

-4%

-0.1

-0.2

-23%

+77%

-23%

2.21

-0.02

Black-ish

1.6

37%

-16%

-0.3

-0.1

-33%

+45%

-33%

1.40

-0.20

Nashville

0.9

28%

0%

0.0

+0.5

-31%

0%

-31%

0.96

-0.06

ABC:

+42%

-22%

Survivor Spring

1.9

27%

-5%

-0.1

-14%

-5%

-14%

2.04

-0.02

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

1.2

20%

-8%

-0.1

+0.1

-33%

+33%

1.21

-0.00

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

1.2

22%

0%

0.0

-0.7

-8%

+33%

1.23

+0.02

CBS:

-16%

+8%

Heartbeat

0.7

23%

-22%

-0.2

-22%

-22%

0.94

-0.12

Law and Order: SVU (R)

0.8

27%

-43%

-47%

1.03

Chicago PD (R)

0.8

26%

-47%

-50%

0.94

NBC:

-39%

-42%

American Idol Wed

2.2

29%

+5%

+0.1

+22%

+57%

+22%

2.32

+0.28

Empire

4.3

48%

-10%

-0.5

+0.8

-10%

+139%

4.03

-0.35

Fox:

+5%

+81%

Arrow

0.8

45%

-11%

-0.1

0%

-11%

0%

0.87

-0.08

Supernatural

0.7

51%

+17%

+0.1

-0.1

+17%

+17%

+17%

0.71

+0.13

CW:

0%

+7%

All:

-2%

+8%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.